Surveys are an excellent customer listening tool. They help you identify what is important, how to allocate resources, make critical decisions and reduce overall risk. Recently, Tech Data surveyed its cloud services customers. Our purpose was to gain valuable insight into their cloud business to ensure we are aligned to deliver the best cloud solutions portfolio and support possible.

In part two of our digital transformation blog series, we asked leaders from the Americas region, “What does digital transformation mean to you?” Find out our team’s business insights and recommendations on how to navigate the evolving digital landscape in 2018.

What does digital transformation mean to you? The answer to this question will likely vary dramatically depending on who you ask. We posed this question to a number of our EMEA employees in a blog series called, "What Digital Transformation Means to Me." It explores these responses and gives insight into the evolving digital landscape. We hope you enjoy these different perspectives on digital transformation.

What's next for the Federal IT landscape? For starters, by 2020 there will three times as many devices as there are people in the world, growing the volume of data to petabytes, exabytes, and even zettabytes. Knowing what we’re up against, government agencies are reshaping their approaches to better manage this data deluge. But today's big data buzz is not new -- for more than twenty years, big data has been evolving into the hot topic we see in the Federal IT in 2017. Today, big data is becoming more important than ever before because of the need to analyze the increased amount of unstructured data to meet modern agency demands. Agencies are feeling the pressure to implement big data technologies, but the road ahead is not so simple. It’s riddled with speed bumps and pot holes – lack of budget and appropriate resources, as well as legacy systems.

Last week, Avnet Technology Solutions' partner blog, Avnet Advantage, was recognized by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) and Association of National Advertisers (ANA) as the Best Corporate Blog of 2016.

Meeting the ever-growing expectations of customers, managing risk effectively and dealing with the competition of non-traditional players entering the market are all issues in which banks are struggling with and have an effect on their top line revenue growth goals. Managing and overcoming these struggles all hinge on the adoption of a data driven strategy.

Working in the highly complex IT industry requires a special breed of individual; one who is intelligent, dedicated and passionate about technology and innovation. But once in a while, you find yourself surrounded by someone that goes beyond these traits and are proactively making a difference in the marketplace. At Avnet, we’re fortunate to have Steve Phillips, who has just been inducted into IDG’s CIO Hall of Fame.

Avnet’s focus on people and trends like the Internet of Things and Cloud keep the company at the forefront of the changing technology landscape. As one of the largest distributors of electronic components, semiconductors, IT and embedded solutions, Avnet is at the very heart of the technology supply chain, bringing the best technology solutions together for our customers around the globe. Watch the video below to see how.

Avnet’s partners often have the luxury of receiving a fully-integrated converged system or storage stack, delivered in one piece with limited setup or assembly required. But have you ever wondered how these systems get to that point?

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 Business Marketing Association national conference in Chicago. Over the course of three days and 39 content sessions, I walked away with an energized view about where today’s innovative B2B marketing is trending. While the sheer amount of transformative ideas was, at times, overwhelming and daunting, I was able to capture seven of the most prominent trends from some of the brightest minds in today’s workforce: